Montreux and Gruyères
We drove around Lake Geneva taking in the awesome scenery and finally came to rest in Villeneuve, just along the shore from Montreux. Montreux has been a haunt of the rich and famous for many years. It was a second home for Freddie Mercury of Queen and was immortalised by Deep Purple in "Smoke on the Water" when they sang of the night the Montreux Casino was burned to the ground by a fan letting off a flare gun at a Frank Zappa and the Mothers concert. Read more…
1 comment July 8th, 2007
